the Martin Freeman massive

99 Never Mind The Buzzcocks Icons

2008-01-04T18:05:43Z

99 Never Mind The Buzzcocks S21E06 Icons
- Kate Nash, Matt Horne, Martin Freeman and Antony Costa.
- 61 textless icons
- 33 quote icons
- 4 animated icons (one alternative)
- comment and credit and all that jazz

Teasers

(let’s not make fun of one hit wonders, especially when Antony Costa’s here…)

S19E05
S20E01 / S20E02 / S20E03 / S20E04 / S20E05 / S20E06
S21E01 / S21E02 / S21E03 / S21E04 / S21E05 / S21E06

Radio play - The Picture Man

2007-12-18T13:32:07Z

From mediaguardian.co.uk:

An adaptation of Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma and a new play starring Martin Freeman are among the highlights of the Radio 3 winter 2008 drama season...Freeman, who sprang to fame in Ricky Gervais's The Office, will star in The Picture Man by David Eldridge.
He plays Neil, a man pushed to the edge by the loss of manners and sense of community in modern society, and decides to make a stand for what he believes in. The Picture Man airs next month.

Dedication Trailer & Stills / The All-Together

2007-08-07T03:36:08Z

New movie for Martin coming out on August 24, 2007 (supposedly) in the US.

TRAILER (and yes, Martin does appear in it briefly)

Stills from the film: 1 | 2

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Martin's brother has also updated his official website with info on the film The All-Together, which was already released in UK in May, apparently to bad reviews. Alas, no release date for the US as of yet, and it may just skip over us and go directly to DVD (if that). :/

Anyway, there's also a trailer and info at The All-Together official site here.

Enjoy!

martin_freeman @ 2007-05-06T11:25:00

2007-05-06T15:26:08Z

Big Martin interview here:

http://www.sundayherald.com/life/people/display.var.1379843.0.0.php

More Nightwatching

2007-03-04T19:01:18Z

There's now a promo/very long trailer thing for Peter Greenaway's Nightwatching, in which Martin pretends to be Dutch and has crazy hair.

Nightwatching

2007-01-31T17:43:35Z

There is some info on Martin's new film Nightwatching (in which he plays Rembrandt) here, including a picture of him in a funny hat, which is always good.

Meanwhile, if I ever get round to uploading it (which is probable, but the amount of time it will take me to do so is debatable), I have a recording of the fairly brief interview with Martin on Jools Holland's Hootenanny from New Year's Eve, if anyone is interested.

martin_freeman @ 2006-11-08T17:14:00

2006-11-08T15:14:32Z

[squee]I've seen Breaking and Entering twice now and Martin is just adorable in it. And he wears the cutest glasses!! Awwww.[/squee]

Breaking and Entering

2006-09-21T01:06:09Z

Film clip can be found here!

martin_freeman @ 2006-09-20T10:36:00

2006-09-20T14:43:11Z

Breaking and Entering was shown at the Toronto Film Festival and got some good reviews.

The Hollywood Reporter
Variety

The Robinsons on DVD

2006-08-29T15:50:35Z

The Robinsons was released on DVD in the US last week. It's not even available in the UK yet, so this is quite a surprise! I haven't had time to properly watch it yet, but there are some special features: Behind the Scenes (15:34), Outtakes (4:44), and commentaries on episodes 1 and 6. Listening to the first few seconds of the commentaries it appears that episode 1's has the creative cast (writer/producer/directors) with Martin and Hugh Bonneville joining them for episode 6.

How envious are you Brits now? ;-)

galleries!

2006-08-27T02:57:23Z

Alloallo!

I'm trying to find a good gallery of Martin somewhere (anywhere!), especially but not exclusively where I can find pictures of him with reddish hair. Screencaps are totally plausible, too.

ANYTHING is appreciated and once I find what I need and make what I want, I'll be able to provide you guys with a veritable busload of bases for your needs.

Thanks!

Rock on. ♥

Long time no icon

2006-08-24T23:25:45Z

8 x Martin from the interviews on the Office Christmas Specials DVD.

( He has a very nice pink shirt. )

New pics from The Good Night (2006)

2006-08-18T04:18:20Z

Found these new stills and poster at IMDB from Martin's upcoming new movie, The Good Night. Martin looks great, as per usual. ^_^ Thought you guys might be interested in seeing them. Martin costars in this movie with Gwyneth Paltrow, Penelope Cruz and Danny Devito. His brother has also written a bit about it (as well as a set visit he went to) at Martin's official site.

P.S. The poster is kind of a rip off of the one for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but oh well...

'The Office' stars to appear in US version

2006-07-18T00:58:25Z

Article Here

'The Office' stars to appear in US version

Monday, July 17 2006, 17:39 BST - by Neil Wilkes

Two stars from cult comedy The Office will make cameo appearances in the US version, according to various reports.

Martin Freeman (Tim) and Mackenzie Crook (Gareth) will guest star in an episode of the upcoming third season of the American remake, which stars Steve Carell in the lead role.

It is unclear whether the pair will reprise their roles from the British series or play new parts. Ricky Gervais is said to be "considering" a part on the show, for which he serves as executive producer, but is unlikely to do so for some time.

Of Brent's possible re-appearance, co-executive producer Ben Silverman told the New York Post: "We're going to save the big man for now."

I hope they show up as new characters!

x-posted

New Person

2006-06-09T22:54:38Z

Hi everybody!
My name is Jackie, and i'm just introducing myself =)
I love Martin Freeman
I'm a very recent fan though
My dad's friend gave us the first season of The Office and we watched both DVDs in four days
I haven't watched the second season yet, but i'm really looking forward to getting it!
I remembered Tim (Martin) from watching The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
and i pretty much fell in love right away!
Sorry i don't have any pictures to put here, seeing as how i've gotten all of them from this community, haha
Well, that's about it for me!
Thanks for making this community!

martin_freeman @ 2006-05-18T00:34:00

2006-05-17T23:35:55Z

Hey all.
I just saw Confetti and absolutely loved it.
Soo.. does anyone know where I can find some Confetti icons, please? :)

Confetti Premiere

2006-05-03T23:36:30Z

Someone at ___spaced just posted a link to some photos from the Confetti Premiere.
Here are the ones of Martin.

martin_freeman @ 2006-05-02T10:56:00

2006-05-02T09:57:55Z

Freeman, Driver and Polley Go Nightwatching

Source: The Hollywood Reporter May 1, 2006

British actor Martin Freeman (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Shaun of the Dead, Love Actually) will play Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn in Nightwatching, a film by director Peter Greenaway, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Dutch producer Kees Kasander, a longtime collaborator of Greenaway's, said shooting will begin next month.

Nightwatching will focus on the creation of "The Nightwatch," one of Rembrandt's most famous paintings, and the effect it had on his private life.

The women in his life will be played by Sarah Polley (Saskia) and Minnie Driver (Geertje). The project is closely linked with an exhibition on Rembrandt, also titled "Nightwatching," developed by Greenaway for the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum.

martin_freeman @ 2006-04-26T21:06:00

2006-04-26T20:08:16Z

I just came back from a screening of Confetti which I can happily report in my somewhat biased opinion was very funny and very lovely. Martin and Jessica Stevenson were extremely sweet and cute (ok, Martin was a bit Timmish) and ahhhh, Stephen Mangan's got it going on!

martin_freeman @ 2006-04-23T23:08:00

2006-04-23T22:09:46Z

Confetti comes out on May 5th in the UK and has a website with stills and stuff.

martin_freeman @ 2006-04-18T17:44:00

2006-04-18T16:47:05Z

Reminder for those in London next week. Martin guest stars in The Exonerated at the Riverside Studios from April 25 until April 30.

Martin in The Times

2006-02-24T23:43:29Z

Martin Freeman had an article in The Times today about his Motown record. And today I found out how to make my scanner work!

It's Motown Freeman
The actor Martin Freeman has just released an unusual side project — his choice of gems from Hitsville USA. Explain yourself, young man

June 1987. I'm about to embark on a mission, one that I'm still on, one that has taken me to many places, led me to meet many people, real and imaginary. One that will help to put me in touch with feelings I didn't know existed. I'm about to buy my first Motown record.

Fast forward to 2006 and everything has come full circle. I have picked 20 of my favourite Motown tracks for the Motown Made to Measure series.

So, how did we get here? Well, let's go back to that first record. I'm 15. I have just bought 20 Mod Classics Vol 1 — a collection put out in 1979 to capitalise on that year's obsession with all things mod, thanks to the popularity of the Jam and the success of the film Quadrophenia. All of the songs were from 1963 and 1964, still fairly early in the story of Motown's success.

I knew a couple of the songs. The rest were a revelation. I'd been into "dance" music since I was 9, first with 2-Tone, then back through the original ska and bluebeat tunes and on into reggae. So I was no stranger to sounds that made me want to move. But this was different. This wasn't political, for a start. At least, not in the way that I recognised as political. It was up. These songs were happy, even when they were sad.

I knew Diana Ross and the Supremes. I knew Marvin Gaye. I had heard of Smokey Robinson. I really liked what I knew of Stevie Wonder. But I didn't know much of their music, not really. I kind of knew it was "mod" music, without really knowing why. It reminded me of ska in a way, probably in the energy and clothes. And I liked it. I liked the voices, the songs, the playing.

So I bought more. I got albums by the duo of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, by the Temptations. I got to recognise and love what they called the Motown Sound. This was something to belong to, which is quite important when you're 15. Or 34.

The clothes helped. Loafers, white jeans (courtesy of the Style Council, who shared my love of Hitsville USA), Prince of Wales checks, button-down shirts — kind of like the fashions I'd loved as a not-very-rude boy years earlier. Something new had come into my life. And not just Motown but, more importantly, soul and R&B — the wider world of black music, for want of a less restrictive term.

A nice thing about getting into music that was around before you were born is that there's so much of it. Some time ago a friend expressed some envy at my not having heard everything by the Band yet. He wished he could be in that position again, to hear it for the first time.

Well, with Motown, there's always something to discover. With seemingly bottomless vaults, chances are there will be "new" old product being released for some time.

Of course, not all of it will be good. Some of it will be awful. I've never been under the illusion that Motown always put out good music. The company's founder, Berry Gordy, was a hard-nosed businessman whose love for a good riff was matched only by a love for extracting money from the purses of young America. This could result in cynical, lazy, cash-in music. The thinking went: if an idea works once, it will work 39 times. In the same month.

But the best of that stuff is just ridiculous. In the Golden Age of Motown — let's say 1960 to 1967 — you had the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, the Four Tops, the Temptations, to name but a few. On the production side you had Whitfield and Strong, Holland/Dozier/Holland, the wonderful Smokey Robinson and Gordy himself. All very young, hungry, talented people, fiercely competing with other labels and, just as importantly, fiercely competitive with each other. These people had the rest of the pop industry asking how they sold so many records, how they made those records so loud, and how they got so many white people dancing.

And the beauty was, there was no real answer. They were just doing it. As were the folks over at Atlantic, Stax, the Brill Building and Abbey Road.

That's not to say it was free, easy and purely artistic. It wasn't. They wanted to sell records. They all wanted a Cadillac. But, to my mind, Motown is the finest example in pop of art and commerce working hand in hand. Gordy may have been hard-nosed, but how many other record company heads could break balls and terrify people but also knew about chord progressions? And wrote songs, good songs? And I've not even got to the part of the story where the company talents morph into geniuses. The holy trinity of Smokey, Marvin and Stevie became so important to Motown, and to popular music as a whole, that their legacy needs to be measured by someone more eloquent than me. Suffice to say, if you can imagine a pop landscape without The Tears of a Clown, What’s Going On or Superstition then you're a crueller man than I am, Gunga Din.

When it came to choosing the tracks for my CD, though, I wanted my selection to be honest. I decided to stick to the records I already owned, as accessing Motown's vaults would have felt like cheating. I wanted to choose records that had been with me for a while, records that have been the soundtrack of my life. I also made a conscious decision not to think too hard about what tracks I was going to include — otherwise I know it would have taken me for ever.

Motown: Made to Measure, compiled by Martin Freeman is out now on Motown/Universal

These are just three of my favourite things

Ooh Ooh Baby
The Miracles
I was about 16 the first time I heard this — and immediately fell in love. Smokey Robinson's lyrics are superb, and his vocal delivery is perfect. One of the greatest love songs.

The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
The Marvelletes
Smokey Robinson also played a key role in this track, writing and producing it, and it's another example of him pushing the boundaries of what you can do. Musically, this song goes all over the place, starting with a great riff followed by those unmistakeable Motown drums.

It's a Shame
The Detroit Spinners
Produced and co-written by Stevie Wonder, this sounds as fresh today as the day it was made. A perfect three-and-a-half minutes of pop. Classic.

martin_freeman @ 2006-02-11T22:51:00

2006-02-11T23:03:32Z

I was walking in Hyde Park today and who did I encounter when I came upon the Serpentine? It was none other than Martin pushing a pram! I obviously had to do a double take after which I confirmed that it was indeed Mr. Freeman. In a split second I decided I had to say something so I threw out a couple of words which probably sounded like "congratulations on the new baby. I read the news on the internet". Which, come to think of it, sounds incredibly stupid as he was pushing a pram. Coming from a complete stranger, this must have totally freaked him out. But he wasn't (that) flustered and said "thanks" while he made a speedy getaway ;)

Anyway, I can't remember what he was wearing but I did notice some classic Martin Freeman-sideburns. The whole encounter lasted a good 15 seconds but hey, those were some 15 seconds! Hehe. I didn't see Amanda and I totally forgot to ask for the baby's name. Hmph. My guess is Louis. Or Barney?

martin_freeman @ 2006-02-06T18:35:00

2006-02-06T18:36:08Z

(4 Martin icons. Yay!)

martin_freeman @ 2006-02-03T08:04:00

2006-02-03T08:06:47Z

Martin has released a compilation of his favourite soul tracks.

http://www.musicomh.com/albums5/motown_0206.htm#